[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#533186: Bug#533186: #533186: cups: Cups not recognising/liking file formats

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Christian Hammers<ch at lathspell.de> wrote:
> Am Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:48:10 +0300
> schrieb Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi>:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Christian Hammers<ch at lathspell.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I experienced the same problem and in mine case, too,
>> > installing ghostscript-cups and restarting CUPS solved the problem.
>> > Please adjust the dependencies!
>>
>> This package already is in Recommends.  Is there any compelling reason
>> to promote it to Depends?
>
> I could neither print text files with a2ps, documents with OpenOffice nor
> web pages using Firefox! So this was a real show stopper.
>
> My guess is that most apps convert their sources to postscript before
> sending it to CUPS which would justify a dependency to whatever CUPS
> needs to be able to print postscript.

Actually, as recently pointed out by Till Kamppeter, all Free Software
applications are in the process of converting to producing PDF (which
is a superset of Postscript) as the default output format.

Martin-Éric